30 Days: Writing a Novel - Day 03

I did it again. I finished my daily 1670 words and even some more. So I’m now a little less than a day behind on the schedule.

I think that the product of my writing will be much worse than hoped for. I don’t think that after these 30 days I will have a viable manuscript for a novel in my hands. It becomes more and more of a writing practice. My real life job consists of writing patent applications and therefore I tend to write very detailed but boring descriptions of things and events. I don’t read my writing now because this would slow me down too much during the challenge but I have a strong feeling that nobody would like to read such a boring account of events that I’m writing at the moment.

On the other hand to view this challenge solely as a writing practice is also not sufficient for me because I sit in front of the computer every day and produce several dozen pages of text every week. So do I really need more of that?

I hope that the truth is somewhere in the middle and I will just try to get through this month and assess the results afterwards. So far I noticed that writing the 1670 words each day takes about 2 hours of time but to get myself started is considerably harder than during the crochet challenge. Crocheting was rather relaxing to do during watching TV in the evening. Writing on the other hand requires a lot of concentration and I need to focus, so watching TV or doing anything besides is completely out of the question. And since I write all day long I’m not exactly thrilled to do more writing in the evening, even if it is writing fiction.

But I keep up my optimism that after 30 days at least some positive insight will emerge from this challenge as well.